Recently, my small town has been "blessed" with the arrival of a new Lifetime Fitness Center. In a time when all we talk about is how little money we have and how much we need to save, I thought to myself that this would not last a day. To my surprise, it Lifetime had over 1000 members before it even opened. Upon opening it received hundreds more. How can people afford 100 dollar a month memberships when they are struggling to put food on the table? Well I will tell you.
In a small town such as the one I live in, everyone here tries so hard to look rich and powerful. Everyone wants to be considered in the upper crust, and will go to great extents just to be a part of the most common trends. For now, Lifetime is that trend. With its sauna, Olympic sized swimming pools, play rooms for children, and gigantic cafeteria, it has become more of a hang out than anything else. This is not to discredit the people who actually work out. To them, this is a great place to work out and then relax after. However, for most people this is a sorry excuse to be a part of a club. People are joining for the soul reason that everyone else is and it is more than pathetic to watch.
Seeing grown men and woman act so childish really makes me think about whats going on in this town. It seems people are growing older, yet maturity stays the same. People trying to fit in to certain social groups, be a popular member, eat at the cafeteria where everyone else is eating, to be brutally honest if Lifetime crowned a Prom King and Queen every year, I would not be surprised in the least.
My point here is to the parents, particularly speaking to parents who are so caught up in their glory days they cannot see how much money they are throwing away. My message to those people is, save 100 dollars a month, an extra 1200 dollars a year. Use that money and put it towards your kids college, or the mortgage, or something less juvenile. As a town, and more importantly as a country, we need to really buckle down, tighten our belts, and focus on whats most important.
What scares me most is that to some people, how they appear in the public eye might be whats most important.
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I think sometimes following the crowd is underrated. So many people try so desperately to be alternative and different. For example, many people I know stop listening to bands as soon as they go mainstream, even though they still like them. Kinds of defeats the point of liking what you like regardless of others opinions doesn't it?
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